Communication and Language Support Officer
The Priory Witham Academy, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7DT24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 31.25hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,183
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Priory Witham Academy is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Communication & Language Support Officer to join a school that makes a genuine difference to its students and supports its staff to achieve their individual goals. We passionately believe there is something special about our Academy – a tangible sense of community and an unwavering commitment to fulfil our motto ‘Believe Together Achieve Together’.
The Communication & Language Support Assistant is a new position that will play a vital role in supporting the SENCO in the Assessing, Planning, Delivery and Reviewing of programmes of work, to groups or individual pupils, addressing and meeting our pupils individual needs with a focus on speech and language. This role will support staff to deliver bespoke programmes of intervention to address early language development ensuring all of our students can effectively access the curriculum both in and outside the classroom. This vacancy would suit an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about working with students with special needs, supporting them to develop from both an academic and social perspective. The successful candidate should be computer literate and have worked with MS Word, Outlook and Excel. English and Maths GCSE grade A-C are essential together with previous experience of having worked with students with autism.
What the school offers its staff
The Priory Witham Academy is an ‘all through’ (EYFS – 18) Academy in Lincoln that is central to the community it serves. Our dedicated team of staff are supportive and aspirant and in return benefit from a high trust, high accountability environment where our ‘open door’ policy values and celebrates the inputs of individuals to create our Academy vision.
The Priory Witham Academy is a member of The Priory Federation of Academies Trust, an established and supportive MAT. Our scale allows both flexibility and creativity in terms of career development, with permanent and secondment opportunities across our academies allowing exciting career pathways. We are determined in our mission to improve the life chances of our students and we are equally committed to the wellbeing and development of our staff. All our support staff benefit from annual appraisals, access to CPD opportunities, our Trust Employee Benefits Programme and excellent support from our HR team.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About The Priory Witham Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1092 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Priory Witham Academy website
- Email address
- mseller@prioryacademies.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01522 882900
Arranging a visit to The Priory Witham Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mseller@prioryacademies.co.uk.
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